Are You Building A Downline or A Team?

I want you to ask yourself a question about your MLM training…

When you started off in network marketing, was your goal to build a downline or to build a team?

In fact, lets step back even further.

Before you even started off on your trek down this journey through MLM, you probably had a preconceived notion of what network marketing was all about.

Talk to all of your family and friends, and they will JUMP right on board with you.

And then when you actually joined a company, I KNOW that when you started off, your upline preached about building your list of 100:

Talk to your family and friends, co workers, neighbors, milk man, barber, mall kiosk workers, bartender, burglers, shoplifters, graffiti artists the arresting police officers, etc., etc. …

…excluding no one within a 6 inch radius of your personal space.

All in an effort to build your MLM Downline.

Where Did That Leave You?

Right back as square one right?

Sure, you may have built a down line of a few people, but they didn’t actually do anything but buy your products each month on autoship.

The vast majority of people in network marketing are in this ship.

Trained to build your downline, build it fast, build it strong.

Let Me Offer a Reality!

If you hadn’t noticed, that aspect didn’t really work out well did it?

Well, what if you shift your thinking a little bit and concentrate on a different point?

Have you considered that you should actually start building a Team instead of a downline?

See, when I think of a team, I think of a group of people that help each other to achieve a common goal.

In this case, the common goal is for everyone to build their own team, create an income from it, and help other people do the same thing.

What is Your Focus?

So, now that you’re in internet marketing and learning how to build your business online, where are you focusing your energy?

Is it providing MLM downline training or MLM mastermind training?

I’ll tell you right now that you are going to find more success with building a mastermind and properly training your team to do the same thing.

If you focus on building a downline – it simply becomes a game of numbers.  Each person is a number.

You concentrate on how many people you can place under you and how many each person can place under them.

There is no success in that.

If that is what you want,  you might as well focus on building your business the traditional way offline.

Your MLM Team

I personally prefer to build a mastermind team.  That is where I have found the most success.

When you focus on building a team, there is enrichment for everyone involved.

You’re able to build that relationship with your team – whether it’s within a lead generation system or within your primary company.

When a lead comes into my MLSP sales funnel, I do my best to build a relationship with them – phone call, Facebook connection, blog posts, videos, auto-responder.

I hold weekly webinars with my mastermind team.  This is an AWESOME way to help everyone out and keep them on the same page.

If you’re on Skype, consider building a Skype group to use as a social community for your team to interact and share thoughts on a daily basis.

(One Sneaky Trick)

If there is more than one person on your mastermind team using the same marketing strategy, consider creating a “tribe.”

Since I do a lot of blog and article marketing, a tribe created with the sole purpose of promoting and syndicating each others content is GOLD in this industry.

Spread the love and tell your friends on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Youtube, etc. about your masterminds content.

This is great for SEO improvement of each others blogs.

MLM Downline Training is vital not only to your team, but to you as well.  It is understood that the moment that you decide to help others become rich first, you will become rich because of it.  It is with that mindset that MLM Team training is vital to your business.  Remember, ask yourself, do you want a downline or a team?